Watch Youtube Without The Ads, Comments, Suggestions, Etc

If you like watching Youtube videos, but you'd rather see them without all the additional screen clutter such as suggestions, comments, lists of other videos by the same contributor and so on, then you'll be interested in this Hot Find.

ViewPure is a web site that lets you watch your chosen Youtube video on a blank screen (you can choose black or white), with no other distractions. Which saves your internet bandwidth, and thus makes everything cleaner and faster.

To use it, just head to www.viewpure.com and paste the URL of the Youtube video you want to watch into the box. Then hit the button and watch in peace, on your de-cluttered screen.

We all know that the latest versions of YouTube have changed so that when you pause a video, it also pauses the buffering which is a pain if you need it to buffer due to slow internet or simply a slow PC.
By using the above add-on, and unchecking the "dash" box in settings, it will enable the buffering to continue when the video is paused

SVPtube is a tiny portable prog that sits in your systray and when you copy a video stream URL to your clipboard, converts it to a format that can be used by any media player - Pot Player for instance. It can be set to autoplay copied URLs and has the advantage of not being tied to any particular browser. Works with various sites like Youtube and Vimeo.

A couple of alternatives are streaming Youtube vids to a standalone media player such as VLC or Pot Player, or using the Pop Video add-on for Firefox which as the name suggests pops the video out into a separate dedicated window.

These have the advantage (for me anyway) that you can drag them around the desktop and resize them to play your vids in a corner of the screen while doing other stuff.